[HacktionLab] HacktionLab Digest, Vol 75, Issue 13

[Gareth Coleman]

Hey! sounds like you got a good deal there especially with the SSD
included. I think you're going to be pleased at how quick it runs for
everyday tasks.

Bitfixit.org.uk (also in Sheffield, I'm involved) does a voluntary fix-it
and advice service, only Saturdays 12-3 at the moment though. There is also
another project in Sheffield based at Heeley City Farm
http://www.heeleyfarm.org.uk that does a monthly repair service - not just
pc's

Check out the restart project http://therestartproject.org/, they have been
going great guns and have events all over, they are as good at doing the
whole media (social and old-school) thing as we are at fixing stuff.

A lot of hackspaces are doing fix-it sessions, but no comprehensive
resource listing them that I know of - keeping it up to date is the
challenge I think.

love

g


On 29 July 2014 12:02, Mick - Clearerchannel.org <
mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org> wrote:

>
> On 29/07/14 10:52, yossarian wrote:
>
>
> It comes with Ubuntu 12.04 preloaded, works fine with 14.04, haven't tried
> Debian.
>
> http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd
>
>
> That is pretty posh innit.
>
> This discussion came at a good time for me as I really needed a new
> laptop. My working practices are bad in anycase with having a lot of
> applications open at one time and multitasking.
>
> But the whole thing now where you do development using virtual boxes just
> slowed down my £150 Lattitude 630 too much.
>
> I offered £200 and got a Lenovo ThinkPad T410s Laptop - Core i5 2.67GHz,
> 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD .
> I reckon it is going to feel pretty posh in comparison.
>
> Thanks for the tip on the SSD Gareth, I probably wouldn't have done that
> without that tip, people on the internet say it really is a lot faster.
>
> I'm wondering if there is a list of places in the UK compiles where people
> can walk in and get advice or help on 2nd hand and reconditioned computers
> and linux.
>
> We used to have arcspace in manchester that was inspired by
> Access Space in Sheffield - http://access-space.org/
> I guess you guys in Bristol wireless still do it -
> http://www.bristolwireless.net/computer-repair/
> Durham - https://network23.org/dfs3/
>
> I'd be interested to know of other projects like this in the UK either
> full time or pop up.
>
> It seems like the day of the £0 is here.
> I get given loads as 'broken'. Then give it a clean, put new heat sink
> material on the chip, put 1G of RAM in and it install any flavour or linux
> just fine. I've passed on about 8 of these £0 laptops (£10 if it needs RAM)
> for friends and projects in the last year without even trying. It makes you
> pretty popular for no real cost.
>
> Obviously the concept isn't new, but it's nice to be doing it with laptops
> instead of having to have shelves full of dusty old towers.
>
> nice one
> Mick
>
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